Articles tagged "Heart/lung transplantation"

2018 American Transplant Congress
Heart Transplant across Low or Moderate Level Donor-Specific Antibodies Have Acceptable Outcome
M. Olymbios, J. Patel, R. Levine, S. Dimbil, M. Kittleson, M. Rafiei, X. Zhang, J. Kobashigawa.
Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles.
Purpose: The presence of pre-transplant donor specific antibodies (DSA) can reduce the likelihood of a patient (pt) obtaining a compatible donor heart. The proportion of…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Graft Dendritic Cell p40 Homodimers Activate Donor-Reactive Endogenous Memory CD8 T Cells within Higher Risk Allografts
H. Tsuda, A. Valujskikh, R. Fairchild.
Immunology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
Memory T cells with donor-reactivity pose a major barrier to successful allograft transplantation and tolerance induction. Longer cold ischemic storage (CIS) prior to transplantation promotes…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Assessing Response to Desensitization: What Makes Sense?
E. Kransdorf, J. Patel, M. Kittleson, R. Levine, S. Dimbil, D. Geft, D. Chang, L. Czer, J. Kobashigawa.
Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles.
Purpose: Sensitized candidates experience prolonged waiting times for heart transplant (HT). Desensitization therapies can increase access to HT for sensitized candidates, but changes in calculated…
2018 American Transplant Congress
The Utility of a CD31/CD68 Dual Immunohistochemical Stain to Improve Accurate Diagnosis of Antibody Mediated Rejection in Cardiac Transplantation
C. Glass, Y. Butt, T. Gokaslan, J. Torrealba.
Thoracic Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX.
Antibody mediated rejection (AMR) occurs in 10%-20% of cardiac transplant patients and is associated with increased mortality. The endomyocardial biopsy, used to identify microvascular injury…
2018 American Transplant Congress
Hemodynamic and Functional Analysis of Human DCD Hearts Undergoing Normothermic Ex Vivo Perfusion
W. Sommer, N. Roy, S. Kilmarx, J. O., J. Titus, M. Villavicencio, J. Stone, J. Madsen, D. D'Alessandro.
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
Heart donation after circulatory death (DCD) is feasible although little is known about the hemodynamic and functional parameters of these marginal donor organs. We conducted…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Validation of a Prediction Model for Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy.
E. Kransdorf, T. Aintablian, M. Kittleson, J. Patel, J. Kobashigawa.
Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles
Introduction: Cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) continues to limit the long-term success of heart transplantation. Although the progression of CAV can be slowed by tailored immunosuppression,…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Antibodies to Angiotensin Type II Receptor I Are Associated with Primary Graft Dysfunction After Orthotopic Heart Transplant in Patients with Ventricular Assist Device as Bridge to Transplant.
M. Hickey,¹ E. DePasquale,² S. Shah,³ D. Vucicevic,² J. Zhang,¹ N. Valenzuela,¹ M. Deng,² E. Reed.¹
¹UCLA Immunogenetics Center, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; ²UCLA Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; ³UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Primary graft dysfunction (PGD) following orthotopic heart transplant (OHT) is one of the leading causes of posttransplant mortality. We hypothesized that antibody to angiotensin type…
2017 American Transplant Congress
TIE'ing Statins to Microvascular Stability and Endothelial Cell Immunogenicity.
C. Ghosh,¹ A. Mak,¹ M. McGourty,¹ S. Parikh,² X. Chen,² S. Goldberg,¹ J. Wedel,¹ D. Briscoe.¹
¹Transplant Research Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA; ²Division of Nephrology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
Graft microvascular endothelial cells (EC) represent a critical interface between the recipient and the donor. Stable/quiescent EC support immunoregulation in part via the expression of…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Increased Ischemic Inflammation Induces Recipient Endogenous Memory CD4 Cell-Graft Dendritic Cell Interactions to Provide Help for Activation of Endogenous Memory CD8 T Cells.
H. Tsuda, T. Tanaka, C. Su, A. Valujskikh, R. Fairchild.
Immunology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Memory T cells provide protection against recurrent pathogens, but memory T cells with donor-reactivity pose a major barrier to successful allograft transplant and tolerance induction.…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Sequential Surgical Strategy for Heart-Kidney Transplantation.
D. Mital,¹ M. Petruccione,¹ J. Brown,¹ S. Vasquez,¹ S. Wheaton,¹ W. Johnson,¹ C. Desai,¹ D. Chhabra,¹ G. Kinzler,¹ H. Sankary,¹ T. Lawrecki,^1,2 P. Pappas,² A. Tatooles,² M. Bresticker,² W. Cotts,² G. Bhat.²
¹Kidney Transplant Program, General Surgery, Advocate Christ Medical Center, Oak Lawn, IL; ²Heart Failure and Transplant Program, Advocate Christ Medical Center, Oak Lawn, IL
Purpose: To describe a unique sequential surgical strategy for heart-kidney transplantation.Methods: We reviewed all 6 patients who received combined heart-kidney transplants at our institution between…